Kenny Ausubel: Imagining Our Way Out of the Unimaginable | Bioneers 2016

This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.

Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. He is the Founder and CEO of Bioneers, the internationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to disseminating breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. He launched the annual Bioneers Conference in 1990 with his business partner and wife Nina Simons, Bioneers Co-Founder and President.

Kenny is a writer, filmmaker and media professional. Since 2004, he has served as executive producer and co-writer of the award-winning international radio series The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature. He acted as a central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature documentary, The 11th Hour, and appears in the film.

He has written four books and edited several volumes of the Bioneers anthology book series. His most recent book Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature (Chelsea Green 2012) won the Nautilus Grand Gold prize in the Ecology-Environment category. He writes for the Huffington Post.

Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges.

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[roberthill]

I have known this since I was a child in the 50's playing in the swamps of Farmington, Michigan. As an organic gardener I sense the plants and often have words like water or feed me come from an area of my garden. I let the plants know I am grateful for their bounty and enjoy listening to the birds sing the trees awake every spring. Even the soil has different forms of life that seem to communicate.
My best friend's daughters did a science experiment that proved that plants respond to human emotions of love, hate and neutral. When I was growing tomatoes on an urban farm in La Habra Heights the owner's son played rap while he worked and a circle of tomato plants around his radio became ill. I had him remove the radio and managed to bring the plants back to health.

[mysticalsoulqc]

together we stand brothers. this is what life's all about, these truth are part of the future. let's all become the future in a world of d.i.y hi tech and in balance with nature. peace to you all.

[gabbyganzel]

I wish everybody would listen to this.

[marythoma]

What a deeply considered text, not a wasted word, I will be viewing this repeatedly just to begin to absorb the content. Thank you.

[HeikoNolen]

He just summed up everything that's wrong in the world! Very concise!

[bettanatura]

Hope....thank you for sharing this. Amazing speech.

[thomfoote]

If Ausubel hasn't considered this already, this would make a great TED talk.

[ShimekRiverGirl]

Wow. This is one of the most spiritual talks I have ever heard.

[guramare]

I see hope after this man's speech.

[geeebobbwow]

“We can do this, this is what we get to do” ❤️

[clarityofmind]

🌈Superior speaker with fantastic vocabulary to clearly express many great ideas while injecting humor and irony to keep the audience fixated. Absolutely amazing speech!😁👍

[flyinsaucer]

genius even the slime mold would appreciate, we can do this, its in our power to imagine it into reality

[RSpence]

There's a cause I can get behind!

[rineric]

Great speech! Standing ovation! Kudos!

[waxon]

Beautiful, cogent, and thoroughly inspiring.

[helenavondrakenstein]

It may be of little comforrt to know but those who destroy the world are also doomed to die with it

[IMANESAMMAN]

Isn’t it funny that no one knows everything about anything but someone just decided to name it something one day ie ‘plant’ and we all just stuck to that story. Wild.

[abstractgrant]

"It's high time to expand our view of personhood to the natural world, not to corporations."

[ronalcalay]

Wonderfully insightful, inspiring speech, full of information, humor and hope.
Thank you for this, for your organization and for a beautiful, meaningful conference this year.

[dailyrapture]

facebook and youtube belong to the people, we need to take them back!!!